changing Z orientation of model

[Cheshire]

Hello there,

I have 0 of modeling and wanted to know if the following is something very simple to do:

I want to add animations to some of the models from the game - where everything is the same as the regular animations - just the whole model is lower down (a submerged version of the model for swimming).

Is this a simple task with magos? how would I go about doing that?

thanks!

 

[Hermit]

Duplicate the animations you want with Retera's Model Studio; add the "Swim" tag to the names of the duplicates with Magos; make sure you're renaming the correct set of animations by looking at their intervals in the Sequence Manager; the keyframes of the duplicates will come after all original animations.

Then go to Windows > Node Manager; create a new helper (or a bone; it doesn't really matter); use the "move up/left/right" actions from the right-click menu to move your helper to the top of the node hierarchy.

Right-click your helper; select Edit Node > Translation;
Translation (movement) is animated in lines of code that look like this:

v: { x, y, z } v - animation keyframe x - movement along the x axis (back/front) y - movement along the y axis (left/right) z - movement along the z axis (down/up)

Add new lines that contain the starting keyframes of the Swim animations, but make sure they're in ascending order, e.g.

1234: { 0, 0, -75 } 5678: { 0, 0, -75 } 9876: { 0, 0, -75 }

Click OK; save the model and you're done.

 

[Cheshire]

thanks a lot for the detailed answer, I will definitely give this a try

 

[Cheshire]

I finally got around to trying this, and I got stuck on the very first line.

Duplicate the animations you want with Retera's Model Studio

been messing around with the modeling studio for a good half a hour, can not figure out where to click to get to this option. mind throwing me a bone?

 

[Hermit]

There's probably an easier way to do it, but I always just make a copy of the model and then import the animations I want to duplicate from the copy, by going to Scripts > Oinkerwinkle-style Animation Transfer (aka File > Simple Import, if you're using Retera's Matrix Eater).

 

[Cheshire]

hmmm. I couldn't get it to work. can you tell what I did wrong here? (don't worry, I have permission to edit...)

 

[Hermit]

You have to make sure the helper you added is a parent of the node that is currently at the top of the hierarchy (Bone_Root).

like this

Every time the parent node moves/rotates/scales, all of its children (and their children) will also be moved/rotated/scaled. However, all children can also move/rotate/scale independently, without having any effect on their parents and siblings. E.g. Every time the shoulder is rotated, the arm and hand will also be rotated with it; but the hand can also rotate freely by itself.

 

[Cheshire]

it's working now but still not bobbing up and down in the water... ... just kidding

works like a charm, thanks a lot!